Browse:(3) FINGERNAILS AND TOENAILS (Volume 4, entries 6400)
(3) FINGERNAILS AND TOENAILS
Volume 4, entries 6400. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FINGERNAILS - TOENAILS - FOOTSKIN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6400
Ah've seen a ole lady [witchcrafter] take a boy one time. His wife wus a dissipatin' wumman, she didn't mean 'im any good. Dis wus a hard workin' boy, an' he went tuh 'er [the crafter] an' ah went wit 'im. (Went to this old woman?) Wit dis boy. She has 'im tuh go tuh work an' jis' take a warm pail of watah an' some soap, an' wash 'is hands an' feetses good an' clean. Sharp 'is knife, trim 'is fingah- nails an' lay dem down; an' 'is toenails, put dem down. She take jis' a li'le snail lid, jis' about lak dat [demonstrates], an' takes dose fingahnails an' toe- nails, an' puts 'em on de stove an' parches 'em thoroughly, up Intuh a powdah compound. Den she cooked 'em in a cake an' give it tuh dis boy. Well, dis boy wife eat dat, why evahthin' come tuh be lovely.